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    Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

    In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
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    Economics of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

    Designed for Harvard College sophomores.

    Course Description: Why do so many individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship despite substantial risks? How do these entrepreneurs raise money to finance their ventures? And what is the impact of... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Venture Capital
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

    By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila and Geoffrey Jones
    This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • 12 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 12

      Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber Abstract—There is a growing body of evidence that many View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    OPM Renew

    ways to capitalize on digital disruption in today's competitive global marketplace Examine the unique leadership challenges and market opportunities facing entrepreneurs as they launch new ventures and compete across borders Reenergize... View Details
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    Rock 100: The Network - Entrepreneurship

    Rock 100 A worldwide exclusive HBS network for founders of early stage, high impact ventures. We are growing exponentially! Welcome to the Rock 100. The Summit The Summit The Summit The Summit An exclusive event where Rock 100 View Details
    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    What Makes a Good Leader

    become something more." What every entrepreneur knows: "A great idea is not enough." Business leader worth emulating: Lou Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM. "He transformed a giant corporation, but beyond that, he is leading a pathbreaking... View Details
    Keywords: Management
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Thinking Ahead

    20-person team when your venture is pre-revenue is not impressive; it could be worrisome.” While the forecast is far from sunny, entrepreneurs are still raising funds, Austin notes—and plenty is still possible with little to no financial... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • Web

    Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program - Entrepreneurship

    Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program The Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program (REAP) is a virtual program designed specifically for HBS alumni. These Advisors are a highly curated group of exceptional, experienced entrepreneurs and... View Details
    • 10 Feb 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

    • April 2019
    • Article

    Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures

    By: Alison Wood Brooks, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang and Brian Hall
    People often feel malicious envy, a destructive interpersonal emotion, when they compare themselves to successful peers. Across three online experiments and a field experiment of entrepreneurs, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate feelings of... View Details
    Keywords: Emotions; Perception; Interpersonal Communication; Communication Strategy
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    • September 2016
    • Case

    Ekal Vidyalaya: Education for Rural India

    By: David Drake, Namrata Bhattacharya, Pooja Godbole and Amrita Saigal
    By examining Ekal Vidyalaya (Ekal), a nonprofit network of schools in India, this case focuses on the classic challenge faced by organizations that grow through replication (e.g., McDonald's, Starbucks, Walmart, Whole Foods): How can they continue to drive growth when... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Early Childhood Education; India
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    • August 2016
    • Case

    Collective Academy

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
    This case is about making the decision to become an entrepreneur and early challenges in setting up a business model and team. In 2015, Pato Bichara co-founded Collective Academy to create an affordable, three-year undergraduate experience to infuse innovation into... View Details
    Keywords: Early Stage; Team Building; Business Startup; Trade-offs; Risk; Founders' Agreements; Education; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Business Startups; Decision Making; Technology Industry; Mexico; Latin America; United States
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    How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest... View Details
    Keywords: Platforms; Launch; Mobilization Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Network Effects; Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    Forecasting the Great Depression

    By: Walter A. Friedman
    What is proper role of professional economic forecasting in financial decision making? The case presents excerpts from three leading economic forecasters on the eve of, and just after, the stock market crash of October 1929. The first set of excerpts is from Roger... View Details
    Keywords: History; Mathematical Methods; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis
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      When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

      New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
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      Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

      capital for entrepreneurs seeking to build businesses and make a difference in their communities. The fund has dual goals of creating social change and the pursuit of reasonable investment returns, allowing for those funds to be... View Details
      • 24 Mar 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: March 24

      Michalopoulos Abstract—Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian model in which entrepreneurs earn profits by inventing better goods, and profit-maximizing... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

      received an appointment by Harvard Business School as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and was named as one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Ms. Beck was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. Prior to... View Details
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      Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

      faculty interest. Over 50 percent of HBS alumni become entrepreneurs at some point in their careers. About the Name The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship was dedicated in 2003 in honor of a generous HBS supporter and pioneering San... View Details